| A | B |
|---|
| provincial | narrow-minded, parochial, insular, naive |
| meritorious | praiseworthy, laudable, commendable |
| unctuous | mealymouthed, servile, fawning, greasy |
| petulant | irritable, testy, waspish |
| umbrage | irritation, pique, annoyance |
| prerogrative | perquisite, perk |
| lurid | guresome, gory, grisly, baleful, ghastly |
| jaded | sated, surfeited, cloyed |
| transcend | surpass, outstrip, exceed |
| simulate | feign, pretent, affect |
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